Word: oils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrus discussed oil drilling in Alaska. "We can't stop the exploration needs of America because we need the energy," he said. He added, however, "Protection and development must accelerate together in this matter...
...economic support and political power of remaining in the mighty United Kingdom. But recently, being British has become less attractive as inflation and unemployment wrack the country and hit Scotland even harder than England. Relief gushed out of the North Sea in the early '70s in the form of oil, and as much as 30 per cent of known American reserves, which by 1980 could provide about $7 billion in revenue to whichever government has the power...
Some people in Scotland feel that a purely Scottish authority should control the oil because it appears to lie in Scottish waters. They view devolution as a first step to an assembly with the power to tax, and a few hope that complete independence will soon result...
...Dark Ages. The portrait of Harvard he paints in Friday's open letter on "the ethical responsibilities of the university in society" is a dismal flash-back to medieval times, when colleges were walled fortresses, isolated from society. Bok would have us spring to the battlements, caldrons of boiling oil at the ready, whenever society's political turmoil and moral conflicts approach the gates...
...across last fall in an effort to buck up his tough-guy image by seizing a piece of Tanzanian territory. For weeks Amin's regime had been pinpricked by guerrilla attacks around the country and more seriously hurt by a near total shutdown of fuel supplies from Kenya. Oil truck drivers have refused to drive into Uganda while the fighting continues...